On March 13th our little spunky Clara Beth turned 1. We had a small party for her with my parents, and we all wore party hats (I know I took a picture of that but I can't find it right now). Clara was thrilled when we sang her Happy Birthday, although she didn't eat that much of the cupcake.
She now stands up on her own and often takes one small step before falling over. She says "hi" all the time, and has recently added in "doggy" and "meow". Last week I noticed at the dinner table that when we say grace, Clara has started very purposefully folding her hands like the rest of us, and adds in an "MEN" at the end. All through church today she was saying amen as well. Very cute.
And of course, today is Easter. Here is our family photo, the girls are wearing these beautiful dresses that my mom sewed for them. Yesterday we did an Easter Egg hunt, and today we had friends over after church for an Easter feast, and right now I am eating my second slice of cake. I love holidays!
The pastor of Trinity Church here in Moscow gave this wonderful homily on Good Friday about death, which is here.
Happy Easter! He is risen!
2 comments:
I actually looked for you on Friday (we were there, huzzah!), and wanted you to know that I was thinking of Christian along with so many others... and anyway, I was just thinking about how glorious it is to serve a Risen Savior... and to have our children planted for His purposes... I can't wait until they burst forth!
Happy celebrating to you, with all the joys God has put in your hands just now, because He IS faithful.
Thank you Melissa! We weren't able to make it to the Good Friday service, but I heard it was lovely. It would have been so nice to see you again! Blessings to you and your family.
Christine
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